BPage 54
- English Word Basso Definition One who sings the lowest part.
- English Word Basso Definition The double bass, or contrabasso.
- English Word Basso-relievo Definition Same as Bas-relief.
- English Word Basso-rilievo Definition Alt. of Basso-relievo
- English Word Bassock Definition A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
- English Word Bassoon Definition A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
- English Word Bassoonist Definition A performer on the bassoon.
- English Word Bassorin Definition A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.
- English Word Basswood Definition The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
- English Word Bast Definition The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
- English Word Bast Definition A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
- English Word Basta Definition Enough; stop.
- English Word Bastard Definition A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
- English Word Bastard Definition An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
- English Word Bastard Definition A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
- English Word Bastard Definition A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
- English Word Bastard Definition A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
- English Word Bastard Definition Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
- English Word Bastard Definition Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
- English Word Bastard Definition Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
- English Word Bastard Definition Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- English Word Bastard Definition To bastardize.
- English Word Bastardism Definition The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
- English Word Bastardize Definition To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
- English Word Bastardize Definition To beget out of wedlock.
- English Word Bastardized Definition of Bastardize
- English Word Bastardizing Definition of Bastardize
- English Word Bastardly Definition Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
- English Word Bastardly Definition In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
- English Word Bastardy Definition The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.